Seniors in Transition
Look around your everyday life and you will see “Seniors in Transition”. They are older adults who are causing family and friends to worry. Concern for older adults is warranted. Sooner or later, as we grow older, we will all transition from being independent (day-to-day no one needs to help us) to dependent (day-to-day needing some kind of assistance). Even the most independent person, will need help.
Please don’t complete online forms giving information about your loved one. You have no idea who will receive this information or how they will use it. Instead, please contact me. Send me a private message using “Contact” on this page or phone me at 916-524-2828. I’ll be happy to have you tell me your family’s entire situation from the beginning. This will cost you nothing. I will confirm information you already have and will share other options based on your individual concerns. Even if you are not asking questions about Sacramento, California, I can help you. I look forward to our partnership.
Why I Love My Work
These "Seniors in Transition" are the reason I love my work. http://nwglory.com/pages/nunanreunion.html#player
Advanced Health Care Directive in a Senior's emergency
In mid July, my husband and I received an early morning phone call from my sister-in-law that Marie had been admitted to the hospital. She was non-responsive with a severe infection due to diverticulitis (an inflammation process in the intestinal tract). We went out the door to work, only to realize we couldn’t think about anything but Mom. We called (one can’t get “sympathy” discount fares online) United Airlines and my husband took a red-eye flight that night. He went directly to the hospital where for the next couple of days he experienced Marie having hallucinations. Before he got there the hospital had asked his sister to sign a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate). She had Marie’s signed Health Care Directive in her hand, but that wasn’t enough. My husband wanted to be there with his sister, so she wasn’t alone signing orders for doctors to withhold life-saving measures for their mother. Within a few hours the third sibling and his wife arrived from out of state. Not realizing how sick she had been, or was, imagine her realizing her children were by her side because they thought she might be passing away.
Starting a Seniors In Transition Blog: Helping My own Parents
Six months ago I mentioned here (see “Back in-love.."above..) I was interested in social networking and starting to blog, but about what can I write? Last week I got it! Me helping my own parents!
Long distance care-giving for my mother, Edna, and mother-in-law, Marie, had been easy and stable. Marie was in assisted living in upstate NY for 5 years. My mother, Edna, lives in assisted living in Florida. I have siblings (one is my husband’s) living near each of them. (By the way, if you have a sibling living near a dependent parent and you don’t live near too, right now, either email or call them to say “thanks”.) Earlier this summer everything changed.
Helping someone else’s parent is what I do for a living (more than 10 years). Everything is different when the parent is mine. I’ve always been able to empathize with adult children, but after this summer, I’ll be even better. I hope you’ll learn from my experiences
